Quote of the Day

“Something like this happens, and all of a sudden the old barriers that were there, the old differences, those things that keep us apart just disappear. Those defined positions, they don’t change. But your attitude changes. And I can’t help but think when I’m confronting someone on something on which we disagree, that I know how they responded to my loss.”

— Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), in a NBC News interview, saying that “at least as many, maybe more” Democrats contacted him about the loss of his son in a plane crash last month.